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Recent Examples of cadaver
Despite an exhaustive search using drones, cadaver dogs and divers, authorities have never found Delphine's body or any other forensic evidence, The Times of London reports.
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Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Drones and cadaver dogs helped locate the remains, the outlet noted.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
After searches with cadaver dogs and tracking of electronic records, there were answers in the weeks that followed.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
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Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Drones and cadaver dogs helped locate the remains, the outlet noted.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
After searches with cadaver dogs and tracking of electronic records, there were answers in the weeks that followed.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadaver
corpse
Noun
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The character was loosely inspired by Ed Gein, a real serial killer and grave robber from Wisconsin who dug up corpses and used their bones and skin to make everything from clothing to furniture and even silverware.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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And the mass graves of corpses evicted from San Francisco cemeteries a century ago.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Cadaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadaver. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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